at 1655 Federal Drive was dedicated in 1986, and is one of four such markets operated in Montgomery by the Alabama Farmer’s Market Authority. During these days of austerity, it barely clings to life. This building is the produce marketing outlet, one of a half-dozen buildings in the complex, all apparently built at the same time. The State Coliseum looms beyond on the right edge, in its own struggle to survive.

-Charles Humphries